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We're here because we've enjoyed your career. Literally. I often say, like, if I'm not at the game or if I'm not working in England, who will I turn on the television to watch? You're one of them, and there are a variety of reasons for that. But if you watch often, then, when I worked here, I've seen you play live, and I've reported on you many times. But one of the rewards is there was extraordinary things.

When you left Spurs, Spurs fans would still sing about you.

And I've even heard them on television singing for you when you're playing against them.

They did it the other week.

No, I didn't know that.

At Wembley, yeah.

What's that?

I don't think I can really, like, when they're doing it, but I'm playing for another

team, like, because when I came on, like, my friends that are at the game, they said,

you know, you've got a standard ovation and that.

And I was like, I was aware of it, but I'm so, like, I'm in a zone because I've come on and I'm trying to, I'm trying to score for my team.

But it's not until after the game, I sit down and I think, oh, wow, that's special on that.

But it's just, again, I don't know, it's just one of those things. Like, it's such an amazing feeling to sort of like, to still get that sort of love from the Spurs fans. It's mental and I just, it's just, it's crazy. It isn't, because it isn't just, there's an ex, there's one of ours, because often exes can be booed or why did you leave or blah, blah, blah, or we're going to give you a hard time today and then we'll still love you in our hearts after us, but to sort of go against the tribal nature of football and to cheer an opponent. Yeah. If you were retiring, if it was your last ever game against them, you can see it.

It's all the time.

It's all the time, yeah. What have you done to, apart from being an honest player's core goals, what have you done? But for me, it's still hard to understand it, to be honest. Really? Yeah, it's all hard to understand it because I'm like, I mean, since me, there's been so many players that have come and gone and I still there doing well and stuff like that and they still sort of like appreciate what I did at the club and, you know, the goals and stuff like that, but maybe it's more than the goals because I always felt like I had a special relationship with the Tottenham fans. And even when there's times where, I don't know, maybe you come out from injury, you're not firing as, always used to sing my name.

Always sung my name because every time I put that shirt on, I always gave 100%.

Always gave 100%.

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